Mind-Blowing Facts We Haven’t Been Able To Stop Thinking About
Every so often, you learn a fact that completely changes the way you feel about the world. The minute before, you were just living your life and minding your own business, and then all of a sudden, everything you thought you knew gets thrown into question. Are you ready to have that happen to you a bunch of times in a row?
We were completely astounded when we learned all of these incredible facts. We think you will be too.
A Long Way Down
Did you know that if you dug a hole to the very center of the Earth and dropped a book down that hole, it would take a full 42 minutes to hit the bottom of the hole?
The Amount Of Water In Lake Superior
Lake Superior doesn’t seem like a huge body of water. It’s not like it’s an ocean or anything. Even so, there’s enough H2O in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water.
Another Fact About Pluto
We’re back at it again with the Pluto facts. Did you know that Pluto didn’t even get the chance to make a full rotation around the sun between the time it was discovered and the time it lost its planet status?
The Dinosaur Difference
A greater amount of time has passed between when the Tyrannosaurus Rex lived and when the Stegosaurus lived than the difference in time between the reign of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and now.
The Sad Truth About Tigers
There are now more tigers living in the state of Texas than anywhere else in the world. Tigers are not native to Texas. All of the tigers in Texas live in captivity.
Bring On The Flamingos
There are also more plastic flamingos in the world than there are real flamingos. Plastic flamingos have come to represent the pinnacle of American kitsch. Is there anything tackier than a fake flamingo?
A Mammoth Of A Fact
It’s a little-known fact that mammoths actually went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid. That’s right, mammoths roamed the Earth at the same time as Egyptian pharaohs.
What’s Cuter Than A Baby Armadillo?
What’s cuter than a baby armadillo, you ask? How about four identical baby armadillos? Armadillos almost always give birth to identical quadruplets. Imagine if you had three siblings who looked just like you.
France’s Dark Age Wasn’t So Long Ago
A not so very long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, France decided that it was a good idea to cut people’s heads off. France was still executing people with guillotines when the first Star Wars film hit theaters.
Who Is Humpty Dumpty?
Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty was an egg. We’ve just interpreted it that way, probably to make it less terrifying. Poor Humpty.
Well, Now I Feel Old
The original animated version of The Lion King was released closer to the moon landing than to today. Do you feel old yet? Because I definitely do. I feel like that movie came out yesterday.
Vending Machines Are Dangerous
Vending machines are responsible for twice as many human deaths as sharks each year. I don’t want to hear anyone say they’re too scared to swim in the ocean because of sharks if they had no problem buying a Coke from a machine that week.
Carrots Used To Be Purple
Purple carrots still very much exist. You may have seen them at your local grocery store at the end of the summer. Still, we think of orange carrots as the default. Purple carrots used to be the default.
Woody Has A Last Name
Woody from Toy Story actually has a last name. It’s Woody Pride. This fact comes to us from the director of Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich. He says that Woody’s last name has been Pride since the development stages of the first film.
Cookie Monster Has A Name
Cookie Monster is a cookie monster, but he does actually have a name. It’s Sid. Well, it used to be Sid. Then he ate his first cookie and his whole identity changed.
Barbie’s Full Name
Barbie has a full name, too. It’s Barbara Millicent Roberts. She was named after the daughter of the people who founded Mattel toys. Barbara Millicent is a nice name, but it doesn’t roll off the tongue like “Barbie” does.
They All Taste The Same
All pieces of Froot Loops cereal taste the same no matter what color they are. Kellogg’s doesn’t go around flavoring the orange loops to taste like oranges and the purple loops to taste like grapes.
That’s A Lot Of Trees
There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the galaxy. Just to be clear, we’re talking about our galaxy—the Milky Way galaxy. Not all of the galaxies in the universe.
The Truth About Cleopatra
Even though we often associate Cleopatra with the pyramids, she actually lived closer to the invention of the iPad than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid. That’s wild.
This Is How Pineapples Grow
For some reason, we imagined pineapples growing on palm trees like coconuts or something. We never envisioned them growing out of the ground like this. It looks like someone just put a pineapple on this bush.
How Brussels Sprouts Grow
First of all, Brussels sprouts grow on long stalks like the ones pictured above. I don’t know why that seems so strange to me, but it does. Also, for your information, it is “Brussels sprouts” and not “Brussel sprouts.”
Deadly Coconuts
Coconuts kill more people than sharks do every year. As do cows. It turns out that sharks aren’t as scary as we thought. Or maybe the rest of the world is just way scarier than we thought.
You Can’t Swallow And Breathe
It is impossible for a human being to both swallow and breathe at the same time. You just tried it just now, didn’t you? See, it’s impossible. You can stop trying now.
Apples Are Old
Some of the apples you buy in the grocery store are over a year old. Because apples ripen in late August and September, many of them are picked then and then kept in cold storage until grocery stores need them.
The Scottish Love Their Mythical Creatures
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. This is because King James II of Scotland wholeheartedly embraced the unicorn legend. It seems like par for the course for a country that came up with the Loch Ness Monster.
